WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:21.600 I am a whistler and I know many things for I walk by night I know many strange 00:21.600 --> 00:25.560 tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows 00:25.560 --> 00:34.440 yes I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak tonight transcribe 00:34.440 --> 00:44.040 it's the whistler strange story the lovely look it began quietly matter of 00:44.040 --> 00:48.120 fact Charles Belden would have found it difficult to trace it back to the exact 00:48.120 --> 00:52.880 moment when he began to feel as he did toward the girl certainly it wasn't love 00:52.880 --> 00:56.840 at first sight somehow he could still tell himself that he was beyond that 00:56.840 --> 01:01.320 sort of thing that is a respectable married man and the competent manager of 01:01.320 --> 01:06.000 the London importing firm founded by his wife father he'd accomplished a certain 01:06.000 --> 01:10.840 reputation but he did remember the first time they met some of the words they 01:10.840 --> 01:15.960 spoke the way she looked at it it was a Sunday morning and out near the front 01:15.960 --> 01:21.000 gate the fog parted momentarily drew back like a soft gray curtain and there 01:21.000 --> 01:28.600 she was. She came walking up the road hesitated as you discovered one another 01:28.600 --> 01:37.760 silently and then. Hello I'm sorry but I've been walking forever it seems I 01:37.760 --> 01:43.120 wonder if you could direct me I'm trying to find the Bellman resident. Well I'm 01:43.120 --> 01:48.720 Charles Belden Oh Mr Belden of course you don't know me but I came in response to 01:48.720 --> 01:54.960 the ad regarding a housekeeper. Or you didn't write Mrs Belden talk to her 01:54.960 --> 02:00.360 on the telephone no no I thought it was best to meet her talk to her in person 02:00.360 --> 02:07.360 yes yes well along I believe she's back from the morning stroll in a daily ritual 02:07.360 --> 02:13.920 with her you know. Here I'll take your suitcase you're very kind Mr Belden. 02:13.920 --> 02:21.360 Not at all. It's strange isn't it Charles the effect of that brief moment of 02:21.360 --> 02:25.600 silence when you first caught sight of her and a few minutes later you find 02:25.600 --> 02:29.680 yourself oddly interested in the outcome of Helen's questioning the interview with 02:29.680 --> 02:35.160 Laurie man Laurie Edgeley I read of your need in the courier I know I should have 02:35.160 --> 02:40.080 thought of references but if you have no one else in mind we haven't had we have 02:40.080 --> 02:48.080 no however I'd appreciate a few days trial Mr Belden. Very well we'll try it 02:48.080 --> 02:52.160 for me Oh thank you ma'am and you Mr Belden. 02:52.160 --> 02:58.360 The way she looked at you that's it isn't the child. 02:58.360 --> 03:03.640 Gloria's gentle lovely look it lingers in your mind fading in and out of focus as 03:03.640 --> 03:07.800 you think about it consider it mean somehow it's more than a grateful 03:07.800 --> 03:12.200 glance child you're certain of it and it remains with you all through the days 03:12.200 --> 03:16.480 that follow through the dull hours at the office and then one night as you arrive 03:16.480 --> 03:21.360 home. What is it. 03:25.080 --> 03:28.760 We've got to get rid of her Laurie vision she said it's like 03:28.760 --> 03:33.880 a housekeeper she's excellent. And I don't understand it happened early this 03:33.880 --> 03:38.840 afternoon old child that upset me so this is what it's all about the day of that 03:38.840 --> 03:42.520 busy body and discuss the election at the club you know I'm running for the 03:42.520 --> 03:46.840 presidency and I'm counting on her to talk like all right. What happened but 03:46.840 --> 03:47.720 now he did not have 03:47.720 --> 03:55.680 a do I finally had to do it myself is that all I Helen the girl simply hasn't 03:55.680 --> 03:59.840 caught on to the routine of things isn't that I'm trying to tell you I spoke to 03:59.840 --> 04:06.080 her and this is what's gone. She asked if she did everything else to our satisfaction 04:06.440 --> 04:11.680 would we mind if she didn't answer the door or take telephone calls. What 04:11.960 --> 04:17.640 naturally I demand an explanation well did you give one it isn't that it's not 04:17.640 --> 04:21.400 for me to tell you what she told you oh why I'll tell you something about coming 04:21.400 --> 04:26.320 out here to get away from someone. A man he's in love with her she professes to be 04:26.320 --> 04:32.160 terrified of him so that he threatened to kill her you don't believe her. Now. 04:33.040 --> 04:37.480 Charles is not at all a mom but maybe we are here alone with her. I never 04:37.480 --> 04:42.080 understand you you're careless of me thoughtless disinterested in everything 04:42.440 --> 04:49.720 even my father's company Helen no you're going to talk to that girl. Oh I'm sorry 04:49.720 --> 04:57.240 I know it's all right not a. I'm going to bed. Good night good night Mrs 04:57.240 --> 05:01.800 Bellin. I'm not 05:01.800 --> 05:07.680 a yes Mr Bellin. We've just been talking and yes and she. 05:07.680 --> 05:23.200 This is better than tell me how. How well you did you work today. It's all right 05:23.200 --> 05:28.200 Lolly I'll get that you don't have to answer the phones of the front door ever 05:29.280 --> 05:35.320 and you're going to be all right. Right here Oh thank you Mr Bellin thank you very 05:35.320 --> 05:54.160 much. In 05:54.160 --> 05:58.360 just a minute the whistler will continue tonight's story all of us are proud of 05:58.360 --> 06:02.360 our hometowns and rightly so in this brief moment before we continue with our 06:02.360 --> 06:06.440 program we'd like to offer a salute to one of our hometowns in America New York 06:06.440 --> 06:11.400 City hometown to more people than any other in the world. Its history is pretty 06:11.400 --> 06:14.560 well known how it was supposedly bought for twenty four dollars worth of 06:14.560 --> 06:18.280 trinkets from the Indians how it started under the Dutch went to the British and 06:18.280 --> 06:22.080 passed to the young United States after the Revolutionary War. It was our 06:22.080 --> 06:25.720 national capital for five years and George Washington was inaugurated there 06:25.720 --> 06:30.280 today it's not only the biggest but probably the busiest and noisiest place 06:30.280 --> 06:34.840 in the world. Much of its growth and prosperity is due to New York Harbor the 06:34.840 --> 06:38.640 port clears more than five thousand vessels a year and ships almost half of 06:38.640 --> 06:43.280 the entire trade of the United States but New York City is many things to many 06:43.280 --> 06:48.480 people it's not just San Francisco multiplied by 10 or Chicago multiplied by 06:48.480 --> 06:52.760 three it's Wall Street and Harlem the Statue of Liberty in Greenwich Village 06:52.760 --> 06:57.840 it's Broadway otherwise known as the main stem or the Great White Way more 06:57.840 --> 07:01.800 theaters are crowded in that area than any place in the world. It's the Empire 07:01.800 --> 07:05.600 State Building the world's color structure it's a parade up Fifth Avenue 07:05.600 --> 07:10.000 and a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers it's 07:10.000 --> 07:14.240 the Metropolitan Opera and Madison Square Garden it's Rockefeller Center 07:14.240 --> 07:18.640 occupying 12 acres and 15 buildings and it's the headquarters of the United 07:18.640 --> 07:23.040 Nations it's the native New Yorker who never moves off his block and the 07:23.040 --> 07:26.560 immigrant who came from halfway around the world it's the George Washington 07:26.560 --> 07:31.200 Bridge on the Holland Tunnel and Grant's Tomb and when you've said all this you've 07:31.200 --> 07:35.440 still only scraped the surface of what New York is like what it's all about but 07:35.440 --> 07:39.520 one thing is for sure the people of New York are proud of their hometown and 07:39.520 --> 07:44.800 proud of the part it has played in the building of America and now back to the 07:44.800 --> 07:56.640 Whistler 07:56.640 --> 08:01.160 you couldn't dismiss her could you child temporarily you win Helen over to your 08:01.160 --> 08:06.200 way of thinking and Laurie stay but week after week the contest between you and 08:06.200 --> 08:10.280 Helen is renewed and her patience reaching the breaking point but it 08:10.280 --> 08:15.120 doesn't seem to matter doesn't because you know that Laurie understand and all 08:15.120 --> 08:19.680 the time the strange unspoken bond between you is increased as she attends 08:19.680 --> 08:24.920 to your every wish hangs on every word you say you wonder how long it will go 08:24.920 --> 08:29.560 on where it will leave then the answer finally comes in a phone call to your 08:29.560 --> 08:30.480 office. 08:30.480 --> 08:34.120 Yes Helen. 08:34.120 --> 08:37.640 Child I want you to drop around the employment agency sometime today and see 08:37.640 --> 08:42.080 about another housekeeper another. Tell me what you mean what's the matter with 08:42.080 --> 08:47.480 my kind of thing longer I won't have my around another minute I I've just got. 08:48.520 --> 08:52.320 What I'm just not satisfied with this arrangement at all I'm telling you how 08:52.320 --> 08:55.360 I don't care to discuss it any further not have either time I'm doing the club 08:55.360 --> 08:58.440 and have an hour the election you know and will you listen to me now I've made 08:58.440 --> 09:02.640 up my mind I told my she can take just one more week and that's all. 09:02.640 --> 09:08.040 For a moment you sit there stunned then slowly replace the receiver and as you 09:08.040 --> 09:12.640 sit back trying to think it out you realize Laurie is everything to your 09:12.640 --> 09:17.640 child and just as she is trying to tell you with every action every look you 09:17.640 --> 09:19.960 suddenly feel the urge to tell her. 09:19.960 --> 09:23.880 An hour later you're racing across the English countryside and you're 09:23.880 --> 09:33.240 going to. Know I'm a very good racing across the English countryside the rain 09:33.240 --> 09:37.880 driving against you with the cars were perilously along the narrow road finally 09:37.880 --> 09:43.600 you swing into the driveway. Hurry up the steps. Then into the house. 09:44.800 --> 09:51.280 Lottery. Lottery then you hear it the movement of the kitchen. Hurry down the 09:51.280 --> 09:57.240 hall. That's right. Thunder drowns your voice here. 09:58.360 --> 10:05.720 The cross the kitchen. Oh. I'm sorry I didn't mean to start. 10:08.440 --> 10:15.840 No no it's quite all right it was silly of me. Well I always think it might be him 10:15.920 --> 10:18.880 I know. What are you doing. 10:18.880 --> 10:25.120 I'm going to tell him about it. Listen to me. You can't go away you must. 10:26.920 --> 10:29.920 Know she's quick tempered she's a lot of things you don't really. 10:33.840 --> 10:40.240 I can't let you go. I suppose I could say until you've got someone that isn't what 10:40.240 --> 10:50.120 I mean. It's that I. Know I'm having this one. I don't. You see. 10:51.280 --> 10:56.040 I have never really. Been. In. 10:57.920 --> 11:03.120 Please Mr government you must talk that way I had to let you know how I felt and 11:03.120 --> 11:08.840 one time free well I don't expect an answer right away but I hope you want to 11:08.840 --> 11:15.000 think about it. I think. I think I've got to go now Mr. 11:15.000 --> 11:24.200 government. You want to hurry as you hurry about somehow you feel confident that 11:24.200 --> 11:29.160 you'll want you to find a way to be free a way to rid yourself of Helen but that 11:29.160 --> 11:33.800 isn't going to be easy and a divorce would leave you. The importing this the 11:33.800 --> 11:39.440 house everything belongs to Helen later in the library you're so engrossed with 11:39.440 --> 11:43.680 your thoughts you don't hear the car in the driveway the sound of the front door 11:44.240 --> 11:49.600 and then. What. Oh. 11:53.760 --> 11:59.160 Well I thought this was going to be an old baby it was going to be yes I. 11:59.160 --> 12:05.600 Was. Going home at this time of day. Oh. 12:08.360 --> 12:13.640 I could have saved it early but back from. I should have told you Laurie always go 12:13.640 --> 12:18.720 to the village on the day off you know what you mean I know why you came here 12:18.720 --> 12:23.760 darling you thought I'd be gone all day you came back to see Laurie didn't you 12:23.760 --> 12:29.360 Laurie oh I had that's ridiculous is Helen you just can't be serious. 12:31.160 --> 12:36.920 You take me for a complete fool I've noticed that we've watched. You can look on 12:36.920 --> 12:38.440 your face moving about like 12:38.460 --> 12:43.440 a schoolboy really Helen you're imagining things I see I tell you I'm going to 12:43.440 --> 12:50.440 tell you. Do you think for one moment she'd be interested in you Helen but you're 12:50.440 --> 12:57.560 not just so peridot dog so unromantic Helen I feel sorry for you you get over it 12:57.680 --> 13:03.720 Laurie's gone you'll go back to your old rose garden pipe collection and you'll 13:03.720 --> 13:07.760 still have me won't you darling. Where you going. 13:07.760 --> 13:16.480 Oh. You 13:16.480 --> 13:20.720 wonder why you didn't kill it yeah well Helen dead you'd be free to marry Laurie 13:20.720 --> 13:25.840 wouldn't you suddenly the answer to your problem becomes quite clear you stopped 13:25.860 --> 13:27.560 your car in the village and entered 13:27.560 --> 13:34.760 a tobacco shop. Good morning Matthew like it's clear another bit I have a store we 13:34.760 --> 13:39.920 had last night. What's going on over at the constable's office I noticed quite a 13:39.920 --> 13:44.520 few people over here but it's not the way it comes to some of the man down from 13:44.520 --> 13:49.560 the clips. Tourist chap staying over at the end decided he'd take a bit of a 13:49.560 --> 13:54.000 stroll early this morning losses put him in like you think when he wasn't killed I 13:54.000 --> 13:59.040 see what would it be Mr Bowden. Well the same as usual Matthew small team. 13:59.040 --> 14:04.800 Well yeah I can check that one drop some fifteen twenty three down to a leg he did 14:05.120 --> 14:11.720 he was lucky all right. The other film you know this is building still take a walk 14:11.720 --> 14:18.800 along the kids every morning. Yes. Yes. She does and that 14:18.800 --> 14:22.960 a warner that the dangerous in this kind of weather never can tell what might 14:22.960 --> 14:29.440 happen you know. You're quite right. You. Never can tell. 14:36.840 --> 14:37.680 That's it isn't 14:37.680 --> 14:42.880 a child accident on the cliff and you are free everyone knows of Helen's daily walk 14:43.800 --> 14:49.680 there. Late that evening when you return to the house Helen is already retired you 14:49.680 --> 15:01.880 hurry to find law. As you step into the half dark and library you feel standing 15:01.880 --> 15:06.080 with a window staring out into the garden you approach within a few feet of. 15:07.640 --> 15:16.360 Lawry. Don't turn around. Don't don't say anything. Just listen to me. I found 15:16.360 --> 15:22.480 a way away to be free of Helen but first I've got to know how you feel. I've got 15:22.480 --> 15:30.040 to know if you want me to go ahead with it now listen to my. Very important. You 15:30.040 --> 15:35.520 will not be implicated. You don't have to answer me. You don't have to say a thing 15:35.520 --> 15:46.920 or a. Unless. Unless you want to stop me. Lawry. Shall I. I go ahead with it. 15:50.320 --> 15:53.520 All right darling. I'll do it. 15:53.520 --> 16:07.880 It. Oh good morning Tom morning my dear my 16:07.880 --> 16:13.000 higher up right and early rather as I. We haven't had breakfast together in a day 16:13.000 --> 16:18.720 and I wanted to catch you before you left the house. You are going for 16:18.720 --> 16:24.720 a walk this morning I thought I would remain a stop. But why do you want Helen 16:24.720 --> 16:31.360 I'm. It might sound odd to you. Early in our marriage we used to go to walks 16:31.380 --> 16:37.600 together it seemed that we were able to talk out so many things. That's true I 16:37.600 --> 16:42.480 was wondering couldn't I walk along with you now this morning we'll walk along the 16:42.480 --> 16:51.000 cliffs like we did before. How did my. And how yes I'm glad that you thought of 16:51.000 --> 16:56.520 this good. I think it will settle a lot of things Helen. For both of us. 16:56.520 --> 16:58.520 I. 17:11.680 --> 17:16.960 Don't be half right use you stop a for example how many of our United States 17:16.980 --> 17:23.280 president were former lawyers eleven no that's only half right brush up on your 17:23.280 --> 17:27.800 American history tell your I.D. officer you want to study with the United States 17:27.800 --> 17:33.220 Armed Forces Institute you stop a it's easy it's simple if you don't want to be 17:33.220 --> 17:38.160 half right use you stop a and now back to the whistler. 17:38.160 --> 17:49.000 And. It's 17:49.000 --> 17:53.600 all over now isn't it. Walk along the cliff with Helen was the last one you'll 17:53.600 --> 17:56.560 ever have to take. And as you turn away from the. 17:57.200 --> 18:02.200 The fog moves in around and you hurry back along the path toward the house you're 18:02.200 --> 18:07.480 anxious to see Laura again talk to. Gain the reassurance that we go for you every 18:07.480 --> 18:13.120 time she looks. As magic in those moments isn't that child and enchantment and 18:13.120 --> 18:17.800 beauty that cannot be denied and after the weeks of waiting you settled it fine 18:18.640 --> 18:21.720 and Laurie need never leave the house it will now be yours. 18:26.400 --> 18:30.280 Laurie. Oh there you are. 18:30.280 --> 18:39.360 Oh it's something wrong no no no Laurie it's over. Exactly as I said over it'll 18:39.360 --> 18:42.840 seem like an accident I'm sure of it it happened to someone from the hotel in the 18:42.840 --> 18:47.680 village they'll think it was the same with Helen your wife I don't understand 18:47.680 --> 18:53.680 Laurie Helen's dead now if they come around just tell them we missed her this 18:53.680 --> 19:03.640 morning thought she'd gone for a walk. You. Know. No no don't come here me don't 19:03.640 --> 19:05.240 touch me. 19:08.800 --> 19:14.560 You turn her away you take a few steps after then stop it's the shock isn't it 19:14.560 --> 19:19.960 child you can feel it yourself now the realization of what you've done but you 19:19.960 --> 19:24.480 will be all right and so will. You wonder if you should go on to the office and 19:24.480 --> 19:28.720 give her time to think. Then suddenly you hear the sound of Helen's car from the 19:28.720 --> 19:33.520 drive and rushed to the window. And Laurie. Driving toward the village. 19:37.240 --> 19:41.720 Racing after her your own car a dozen thoughts found in your mind as you wonder 19:41.720 --> 19:47.920 what you've done wrong perhaps it was the way you told her that. The cold shot and 19:47.920 --> 19:55.480 then you see Helen car parked at the curb you stop. And realize too late that you 19:55.480 --> 19:59.080 have followed Laurie right to the constable's office where he is talking to 19:59.080 --> 20:06.800 her. And then as you turn to hurry away. Try to get back on that car if I were you 20:07.360 --> 20:13.480 or what. What's the matter comes to. You. 20:13.480 --> 20:23.640 Want to hear tell me you can your wife. She told you yes yes now but she was in 20:23.640 --> 20:30.280 on it herself. She knew I was going to do it I told her she didn't stop me no no 20:30.280 --> 20:36.280 no that's not true. Last night in the library you were standing by the window 20:36.720 --> 20:43.440 looking out into the car. Last night what I didn't even see you but you heard me 20:43.440 --> 20:49.520 Laurie. You must know just a moment there is more if there she didn't see you she 20:49.540 --> 20:55.520 couldn't have heard you. What don't you understand that's why I couldn't answer 20:55.520 --> 20:59.320 the doorbell or the telephone that's why I made up that story of the man who was 20:59.340 --> 21:03.440 supposed to be threatening me then didn't ever you ever notice the way Laurie 21:03.440 --> 21:15.080 looked at you. Yes. A lovely look. Good reason for that look you see Lordy can't 21:15.080 --> 21:20.040 hear when she looked at you like that she's reading your lip. 21:24.840 --> 21:28.800 Now a question do you know the significance of the oak leaf worn by the 21:28.800 --> 21:32.720 Navy's commanders and lieutenant commanders in the early days of the Navy 21:32.720 --> 21:36.780 since all ships were constructed of wood a wood had to be selected which would be 21:36.780 --> 21:41.020 durable and long lasting capable of sailing through any kind of weather. Thus 21:41.020 --> 21:44.540 the wood of the sturdy oak tree was selected later when insignia were 21:44.540 --> 21:48.140 selected for the officers of the Navy the oak leaf was chosen for commanders 21:48.140 --> 21:51.580 and lieutenant commanders as a symbol of their capability and strength of 21:51.580 --> 21:55.740 leadership. This is but one of many interesting facts which can be found in 21:55.740 --> 21:58.180 the history of your United States Navy. 21:58.180 --> 21:59.180 Oh. 22:01.780 --> 22:05.260 It's an internet transcribed story were bill Foreman as the Whistler John Dana 22:05.260 --> 22:09.420 Lareen Puddle Mary Lou Harrington Eric Snowden and Dick Ryan the Whistler 22:09.420 --> 22:12.900 directed by Gordon T Hughes with music by Wilbur Hatch is produced by Joel 22:12.900 --> 22:16.980 Malone and transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces radio service tonight's 22:16.980 --> 22:21.100 Whistler was based on the story by Mary Ruth. The Whistler was entirely fictional 22:21.100 --> 22:24.260 and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional any 22:24.260 --> 22:27.380 similarities of names or resemblances to persons living or dead is purely 22:27.380 --> 22:30.380 coincidental. This is George Wall speaking and reminding you to listen 22:30.380 --> 22:59.580 again next week for another strange tale by the Whistler.